Dear colleagues and friends, Please join me in welcoming a new member to the SSYCDS listserv, Linhe Li. Below please find Linhe's self-introduction. Welcome to our community! Linhe Li 李林壑 is a Ph.D. student in premodern Chinese literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. Her research centers on literary compositions and representations of imperial and regional borderlands in the Middle Period, with particular attention to frontier poetry on the “Western Regions.” She is also interested in travel writing, landscape poetry, as well as religious and funerary art, which she examines in the context of transcultural interactions along the ancient Silk Road. She previously studied at the University of Hong Kong (B.A., 2021) and Columbia University (M.A., 2023). Wishing everyone a great start to the new semester! Sincerely, Yiwen Li Secretary, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies